For two months in 2021, Trent Dalton sat at a busy corner in Brisbane City with his 1960s Olivetti typewriter and invited those wandering past to divulge their true, heartfelt tales. The result was collated into his book Love Stories, a collection of gathered confidences interspersed with Dalton’s observations and questioning about what love really means.
Taking this concept as inspiration, the author will be once again corralling tales of love in his home city –this time as an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Brisbane during Brisbane Festival in Spring 2024.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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